Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1897-1898 [PAGE 113]

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CHOICE OF COURSES

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SUGGESTIONS AS TO CHOICE OF COURSES Students who wish to take major courses in several natural science subjects, with the intention of graduating in natural science without a thesis, should take the required subjects of the freshman year together with zoology 2; may follow this in the second year with botany 1, German, physics, and military, each throughout the year; may select for the junior year mineralogy 1, to be followed by geology 1, bacteriology or elementary entomology, embryology, general biology, German, minor physiology, and rhetoric 2, finishing geology 1 in the fall term of the senior year, and completing their course by selecting studies amounting to eight elective credits from the remaining subjects open to> them. Numerous variations of this course may readily be arranged to the same general effect. Those who wish to concentrate their major work in zoology only should take courses 1, 4, and 5 or 6 in zoology, beginning with the second term of the freshman year; minor courses in physiology, physics, and botany in the second year; mineralogy 1 and geology 4 in the third year, and anthropology 1 and thesis investigation during the senior year. For a zoological course with principal reference to entomology, zoology 2 may be taken instead of 1, and followed by courses 6 and 7, with the omission of course 4 from the above list. The student who desires to specialize in physiology should take the subjects precedent to course 1 and follow these with all the physiology offered, except course 4. His work otherwise may be like that suggested above for the zoological specialist. A special course in botany may be made up on lines similar to those of the special zoological course by taking, instead of major zoology, the botanical courses 1 to 4 in the second and third years, preferably preceded by zoology 6 in the freshman year, and followed by botany 5 (thesis work).